In the therapeutic process, we encounter impasses where one must seemingly harm or be harmed by the other, and it feels as though there is only room for one psyche to live. This was already implied by Klein’s writings, but this presentation will juxtapose her views to an intersubjective perspective. The theory of mutual regulation and recognition allows a reformulation both of the dilemma of harm and the conception of repair.

However, when there is a history of failed repair, even expressing a need for acknowledgment may be fearfully equated with being destructive to the needed other—the other who cannot tolerate the failure to be good. Thus both need for responsiveness and need for acknowledgment of failure have the imagined or real potential to so destabilize the other that being injured and harming the other become conflated. How does our clinical work enable us to create/recreate with our patients the sense of a lawful, meaningful world (representation) in which both can live?

Speaker

Jessica Benjaminis a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City, where sheis asupervising faculty member at the Relational Track of the New YorkUniversityPostdoctoral Psychology program in Psychotherapy andPsychoanalysis as well asa founding board member and faculty of theMitchell Center for RelationalStudies. She was a co-founder of theInternational Association of RelationalPsychoanalysis and Psychotherapyand the journal Studies in Gender andSexuality and on the editorial boardof Psychoanalytic Dialogues.

Dr Benjamin is knownas a contributor to thedevelopment of relational psychoanalysis and itsinterrelation with feminismas well as the theory of intersubjectivity. She isthe author of three books:The Bonds of Love; LikeSubjects, Love Objects; Shadow of the Other. Hermostfrequently cited article is "Beyond Doer and Done to: anIntersubjective view of Thirdness" (Psa. Quarterly 2004). She directedTheAcknowledgment Project (2004-2010), a series of dialogues between Israeliand Palestinian mental health professionals and participated in a videoprojecton Combatants for Peace, movingbeyondviolence.org available online. Her mostrecent book Beyond Doer and Done To:Recognition Theory,Intersubjectivity and the Third was published in July 2017.

Location

The New Haven Lawn Club

193 Whitney Ave, New Haven

Conference Schedule

10:00 – 10:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:30 – 12:30 Presentation

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch for All Attendees

To Register and Pay

Register and pay online with your credit card or paypal.

To pay by check, print and fill out the registration form and mail with your check to Conference Registrar,Matt Brennan, LCSW,738 Townsend Ave, New Haven, CT 06512Mailed registrations must be postmarked by January 15 to qualify for early registration discount.

Refunds will be given in full if the Conference Registrar, Matt Brennan, LCSW, is contacted at Matt Brennanno later than the Monday before the conference.

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Learning Objectives

Participants willlearn:

To make clinical useof the idea of intersubjective rupture and repair and its developmentalorigins.

The meaning and applicationof the concept of the idea of the moral Third and how it guides thetherapistin clinical impasses that involve the “doer-done to” complementarity.

Will be able toevaluate and discern when acknowledgment and disclosure by the analyst are helpful, especially when there are problems of dissociation and shame.

Continuing Education

This conference has been approved for for 2 continuing education hours (NASW & Div. 39)

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

Art:Katsushika Hokusai,The Suspension Bridge on the Border of Hida and Etchū Provinces (Hietsu no sakai tsuribashi), from the seriesRemarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran) ca. 1830. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To pay by check, print and fill out the registration form and mail with your check to Conference Registrar,Matt Brennan, LCSW,738 Townsend Ave, New Haven, CT 06512Mailed registrations must be postmarked by March 5 to qualify for early registration discount.

Refunds will be given in full if the Conference Registrar, Matt Brennan, LCSW, is contacted at Matt Brennanno later than the Monday before the conference.

Click HERE for MS Word version of the mail in registration form, HERE for the PDF.

Members - remember to log in to register as a member.

Recommended Readings

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Learning Objectives

Continuing Education

This conference has been approved for for 2 continuing education hours (NASW & Div. 39)

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

Psychodynamics of Addiction: Treatment

Within a Harm Reduction Model

Presenter: Dean Leone, PhD

Date: Saturday, March 23, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Attendance is free, space is limited.

This presentation will offer an overview of the psychodynamic contribution to understanding addiction with a specific focus on the role that shame and unhealthy attachment patterns play in addiction. How these patterns interfere with recovery will also be reviewed.

The Harm reduction model will be discussed as a framework for substance abuse treatment as it offers a common-sense approach that helps an addict gradually relinquish maladaptive defenses that more immediately reduce the negative consequences associated with addiction.

Dean Leone, Ph.D. recently retired from the Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital where he served as Department Chair and as a unit-based psychologist focusing on the treatment of sexual and substance abuse disorders. He is certified in the Circle of Security Model for the treatment of attachment disorders. He currently maintains a private practice in Westport and Guilford CT where he will soon be opening an IOP for substance abuse treatment.

RESONANT (ADJ.)

1. Deep, clear, and continuing to sound or ring;

2. Having the ability to evoke enduring images, memories or emotions.

Psychoanalysis is a craft which seeks to continually discover, recognize and liberate the deep voices within us all which resonate through our individual lives and help shape our collective experience. Within the analytic relationship, voices which have been sequestered, muted or overly dominant may be known in a way which brings forth the possibility of creating something new, even as past trauma is witnessed and mourned. All of this occurs in a context of a deepening appreciation of differences which coexist with the overlapping experience and unique features of identity: race, gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, physical abilities and spirituality. Coming to an authentic experience of mutuality is a journey within these facets of our shared experience as well as the settings and cultural contexts which shape how we live, work, and come to know ourselves and one another, through the experience of collision and conflict, and the attainment of greater harmonic accord.

Our program will take place in Philadelphia, a city rich in a history of foundational events in the life of our nation, as well as a complex multicultural urban landscape. This is a city which resonates with many communities of vibrancy and challenge, where trauma coexists with deeply felt passion and creativity. One of Philadelphia’s most powerful witness to diversity is the Mural Arts Project, in which the lives, commitments and creativity of so many of our citizens are celebrated. This project is but one of the cultural expressions in Philadelphia that forms the landscape for our reflection of how psychoanalysis continues to be a unique means of understanding and enriching our intersecting experiences.

For more details and to register go to: www.division39springmeeting.com/

Dr Nields is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine where she supervises residents in

long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on neuropsychiatric Lyme disease, as well as articles on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and religion, and is a member of the national Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. She has a particular interest in mind-body interactions, the psychological effects of chronic illness, and the factors that contribute to resilience. She is a certified neurofeedback practitioner as well as a psychotherapist in Fairfield, Connecticut.

To pay by check, print and fill out the registration form and mail with your check to Conference Registrar,Matt Brennan, LCSW,738 Townsend Ave, New Haven, CT 06512Mailed registrations must be postmarked by April 23 to qualify for early registration discount.

Refunds will be given in full if the Conference Registrar, Matt Brennan, LCSW, is contacted at Matt Brennanno later than the Monday before the conference.

Click HERE for MS Word version of the mail in registration form, HERE for the PDF.

Members - remember to log in to register as a member.

Recommended Readings

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Learning Objectives

Continuing Education

This conference has been approved for for 2 continuing education hours (NASW & Div. 39)

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.